Huntington PPC Campaigns Built to Turn Clicks Into Customers
More phone calls and booked work from Google search, and now from AI search too.
Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and Meta campaigns for Huntington service businesses, engineered around the only metric that pays back: revenue per booked lead, not click volume.
Latest case study below: +76% Google Ads conversions on a 2.29% spend increase.
- Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Meta, LinkedIn. Every channel where the cost-per-lead math closes
- Conversion tracking wired to your CRM, not just Google Ads (GA4 + CallRail + offline imports)
- Dedicated landing pages per intent. The home page is not a landing page
- Monthly reporting tied to leads and revenue. Google Partner. 5.0 across 30+ Google reviews
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How a 78-year-old Gulf Coast glass company drove 76% more Google Ads conversions on a 2.29% spend increase.
Huntington service businesses run in a Tri-State auction where Marshall University’s student-and-staff demand collides with a regional medical-hub buyer pool spread across West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and southern Ohio. The Dixie Glass campaign shows what disciplined PPC management does to that math.
Dixie Glass, a third-generation Mississippi Gulf Coast glass company in business since 1946, came to Lithium with Google Ads campaigns that were spending without producing tracked conversions. We rebuilt the campaigns around proper conversion tracking, tightened the keyword and match-type strategy, deployed dedicated landing pages, and wired CallRail through to GA4. Over twelve months, on only a 2.29 percent ad spend increase, Google Ads conversions climbed 76 percent and the campaign conversion rate landed at 15.57 percent.
DIXIE GLASS — GOOGLE ADS REBUILD
Three things Huntington PPC programs miss that we don't.
Huntington's Tri-State auction punishes broad-match guessing.
Search volume across the Huntington metro is a fraction of what you see in Charleston or Lexington, so a single mistargeted broad-match keyword pulls Ironton, Ashland, or Barboursville clicks that may not convert at Huntington rates. We tighten match types and pair geo-targeting with a tri-state radius logic so spend lands on the actual buyer.
Huntington buyers respond to local proof, not regional stock copy.
Appalachian buyers read out-of-town ad copy quickly and skip it. We write ads that name the service, the part of town (Downtown, Southside, Ritter Park, Westmoreland), and a real offer, then point them at landing pages that look like Huntington and load fast on the mixed rural and metro mobile networks running through Cabell and Wayne counties.
Huntington PPC math closes on cost per booked lead.
Tri-State impression share looks great and means nothing if the phone is not ringing. We report leading indicators weekly during launch, then leads, cost per lead, and revenue every month against your CRM. The strategy call is built around what actually closed, not a vanity dashboard.
Ranking for queries that do not convert
In Huntington, where Bay Area business-services CPCs run $7 to $12, every wasted click is a measurable dollar lost. Lithium’s PPC programs are built around the cost-per-lead math first, click volume second.
Technical debt blocking growth
Service-business buyers prefer to tap a phone number rather than navigate a menu to find one. A site missing a click-to-call link in the hero, and a sticky mobile bar that keeps it within thumb reach during scroll, loses the calls you paid to earn through ads.
Generic content that says nothing local
A PPC campaign without proper conversion tracking, dedicated landing pages, and negative-keyword discipline is invisible in your CRM dashboard. The clicks may be there, the impressions may be there, but the booked work is flat. That is where most of the Huntington ad spend silently leaks.
No measurement tied to revenue
Buyers decide whether to keep scrolling in about five seconds. A site that shows no reviews, no project photos, no service-area clarity, and no trust signal in the hero loses every time to a competitor who placed a single five-star rating in the right spot.
Eight things we ship inside every Huntington PPC retainer, not as upsells.
A Huntington PPC program needs every line item in this list working together. The Tri-State market is small enough that one neglected layer (tracking, negatives, landing-page speed) can flip the campaign from profitable to wasteful inside a week.
Conversion tracking, properly wired
GA4 events on every form and click-to-call. CallRail call tracking with call quality scoring. Server-side conversion imports for Google Ads. Offline-conversion imports from your CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce, GoHighLevel). The algorithm cannot optimize toward leads it cannot see.
Dedicated landing pages per intent
Landing pages built for the buyer behind the keyword, not the home page. Single offer above the fold, tap-to-call thumb-zone-friendly, one form, one CTA, and a load time under 2.5 seconds on a mid-tier Huntington mobile network. Every high-intent keyword cluster gets its own page.
Keyword strategy + match-type discipline
Keywords mapped to buyer intent (research, comparison, decision) and tied to estimated revenue per lead. Match-type discipline that prevents broad-match drift from eating budget on the wrong queries. Monthly negative-keyword review from the search-terms report.
Ad copy + Responsive Search Ads
Ad copy that names the actual service, not “quality work.” Responsive Search Ads with the maximum asset count, manual headline pinning where intent demands it, sitelinks tuned to Huntington buyer language, and structured asset extensions. Every variant tagged for A/B analysis.
Geo-targeting + audience layering
Geo-targeting at the suburb level, not the metro level. Bid modifiers tuned to your actual conversion data across the neighborhoods you serve. Audience layering with in-market segments, remarketing pools, and customer-match uploads from your CRM. The right click, the right place, the right time, at the right bid.
Bid management + remarketing
Manual control on high-intent keywords, Google’s tCPA and tROAS automation where the data supports it. Remarketing audiences segmented by funnel stage, with display, YouTube, and Discovery campaigns layered on top of search for Huntington buyers who clicked but did not convert. The full funnel, not just the first click.
Reporting tied to revenue, not vanity
Looker Studio dashboard updating daily on impressions, clicks, conversions, conversion rate, and ROAS by campaign and ad group. Call quality scored and reviewed monthly. Monthly written report ties everything back to leads delivered, cost per lead, and revenue. The same numbers Lithium uses internally to manage your program.
Optimization cadence that pays back
Daily monitoring during the first 30 days, weekly after that. Bid adjustments, ad copy rotations, and budget reallocations happen on real data: search-terms reports, conversion data by ad group, landing-page conversion rate, device and audience performance. Every change is logged and tied to a measurable outcome.
The verticals where our Huntington PPC playbook turns clicks into customers most reliably.
Huntington’s economy splits between the Marshall University student-and-staff base, the regional healthcare gravity of Cabell Huntington Hospital and Mountain Health Network, the legal and professional services that work the Tri-State court system, and the home-services trades supporting the residential base across Cabell and Wayne counties. These are the verticals where our PPC programs deliver the most consistent cost-per-lead math.
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing trades in Huntington run hard against Ohio Valley winters that crack pipes and stress furnaces, plus the older housing stock from Ritter Park through Southside and the West End. We build emergency-intent call-only campaigns, geo-target Huntington plus Barboursville, Milton, and the Cabell and Wayne county footprint, and run tap-to-call landing pages that load fast on the mixed Tri-State mobile networks. Cost per lead typically lands $45 to $110 once optimized.
Independent dental and medical practices in Huntington operate in the orbit of Cabell Huntington Hospital, St. Mary’s Medical Center, and the Mountain Health Network footprint, plus the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. We run procedure-specific ad groups, insurance-friendly landing pages naming the carriers accepted, and conversion tracking through the booking platform, not just form submissions. The student base over-indexes on urgent-care and orthodontic intent on specific keyword sets.
Huntington contractors and builders work a mix of historic-home renovations in Ritter Park and the older parts of Southside, post-flood and storm rebuild work tied to the Ohio River basin, and remodel work in Westmoreland and Pea Ridge. We run project-type ad groups, real Tri-State jobsite photography (not stock), and quote-form landing pages with realistic price-range expectations so the call comes in qualified.
Huntington attorneys handle a heavy mix of personal injury along I-64 and the river commute, family law, workers’ compensation tied to the regional industrial and mining employer base, criminal defense, and Social Security disability claims. We run practice-area campaigns tied to real buyer intent, write ad copy that meets West Virginia State Bar advertising rules, and tie consultation-booking landing pages to CallRail so the high-CPC legal click traces to a booked call.
Huntington’s restaurant and hospitality scene clusters around the Pullman Square downtown core, the Old Main corridor near Marshall, and the 4th Avenue district. Volume spikes around Marshall home football weekends, graduation, the Mountain Health Arena event calendar, and ChiliFest in the fall. We build local-intent search campaigns, OpenTable conversion tracking where it applies, event-driven scheduling, and geo-fenced ad groups during peak windows.
Auto repair, body shops, detailing, and fleet maintenance in Huntington handle a commuter base running I-64 between Charleston and Lexington, plus the regional logistics fleet that moves through the Ohio River corridor. We run emergency-intent call-only campaigns, OEM-targeted ad groups, parts-and-labor landing pages, and dynamic call extensions during shop hours. Geo-targeting extends along I-64 to catch breakdown searches before they default to an Ashland or Barboursville shop.
Huntington’s specialty retail concentrates around Pullman Square downtown, the Huntington Mall in Barboursville, and the 5th Avenue commercial strip. We run Google Shopping campaigns with product feeds, local-inventory ads, store-visit conversion tracking, and remarketing audiences segmented by product category. Performance Max handles awareness; manual search captures the high-intent decision.
Huntington’s B2B economy runs on healthcare-vendor work for the regional hospital systems, the higher-education vendor base around Marshall University, energy and chemical-industry services tied to the Ohio Valley industrial footprint, and the small-business operator pool across the Tri-State. Sales cycles run long. We run LinkedIn-paired Google Ads, gated-content lead-gen funnels, and long-cycle attribution wired through HubSpot or whatever CRM the business already uses. Cost per qualified opportunity matters more than cost per first-touch click.
From audit to optimized campaigns, with weekly check-ins through the first month.
Profitable PPC is a compounding system, not a one-time launch. The Lithium process starts with an audit and conversion-tracking rebuild, then ships campaign optimizations on a weekly cadence with monthly reporting that ties impressions to booked work.
Audit and strategy
We pull your Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, GA4, CallRail, and CRM data and audit your current campaigns against impression share, conversion rate, quality score, and search-terms waste. We map your service mix, real Huntington buyer journeys, and revenue per lead. You receive an audit deliverable in week one with priorities ranked by impact.
Conversion infrastructure
Before we touch ad copy, we wire conversion tracking properly. GA4 events on every form and click-to-call, CallRail through to Google Ads, server-side conversion imports, and offline-conversion imports from your CRM. The algorithm cannot optimize toward leads it cannot see, so this gets done first or everything else compounds slower.
Campaign build
Ad groups structured by buyer intent, ad copy with the maximum Responsive Search Ads asset count, dedicated landing pages built for each high-intent keyword cluster, geo-targeting at the suburb level (tuned to the neighborhoods you actually serve), and a baseline negative-keyword list. Every campaign launches with a 30-day optimization plan already mapped.
Launch and learning phase
We build your Huntington campaigns from the ground up: ad groups by intent, ad copy with the maximum Responsive Search Ads asset count, sitelinks tuned to Huntington buyer language, geo-targeting at the suburb level, and dedicated landing pages for the highest-intent keywords. Every campaign launches with a baseline negative-keyword list and a 30-day optimization plan already mapped.
Ongoing optimization
Daily monitoring during the first 30 days, weekly after that. We optimize on search-terms reports, conversion data by ad group, landing-page conversion rate, device and audience performance, and quality score drift. Bid adjustments, ad copy rotations, and budget reallocations happen on real data, not gut feel. Every change is logged and tied to a measurable outcome.
Measurement and monthly iteration
Monthly written report tied to leads, cost per lead, and revenue from paid search. Strategy call with DJ Van Zanten to set the next month’s priorities. The strategy adjusts every thirty days based on what is actually moving the phone in Huntington. Not what looks good on a vanity chart.
What a Huntington service-business owner actually gets, by PPC approach.
Transparent pricing. Management starts at $500/month, separate from your ad spend.
Typical Huntington service businesses run $500 to $1,500 per month in management on top of $2,000 to $5,000 in monthly ad spend. Pricing scales with monthly ad spend, channel count (Google, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn), and how much landing-page production work the campaign needs. You will see the math on the first call. No haggling, no hidden upsells.
Service businesses Lithium runs PPC for.
Willard Power Vac
“Lithium Marketing has been amazing for our business. They have greatly increased our web traffic and helped us land hundreds of jobs.”
Drake’s 7 Dees
“Cost per lead is down, lead quality is up, and the monthly reports actually mean something. Lithium runs our Google Ads like they own the business.”
Rickabaugh Construction
“Working with Lithium Marketing has been awesome.”
Huntington PPC, straight answers.
A properly built Huntington campaign starts producing tracked conversions within the first week of launch. The first 30 days are a learning phase where the algorithm calibrates on real Tri-State data and we filter Ashland and Ironton spillover out of the search-terms report when it does not convert at Huntington rates. Cost per lead typically stabilizes by month two and improves through month three as negatives tighten and landing pages get conversion-rate-tested. We report weekly during the first month, monthly after that.
Huntington CPCs run low compared to a major metro but the Tri-State auction is shallow enough that broad-match mistakes burn budget fast. Most service-vertical keywords sit in the $3 to $7 range, with legal pushing $12 to $30 once personal-injury and Social Security disability competition factor in. PPC works in Huntington when the campaign is built tight around the actual metro and the surrounding service radius. Properly run Huntington campaigns deliver cost per leads under $95 in trades and under $200 in legal.
Management starts at $500 per month, separate from your ad spend. Typical Huntington service businesses run $500 to $1,000 per month in management on top of $1,500 to $3,500 in monthly ad spend. The Tri-State market does not need Charleston or Lexington ad budgets to produce real lead flow. The number depends on monthly ad spend, channel count (Google, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn), and how much landing-page production work the campaign needs.
No reputable PPC agency guarantees a specific cost per lead or conversion rate, because both are controlled by the Google Ads auction, the season, and your offer. Huntington especially varies by season, with winter HVAC demand and spring storm-driven roofing intent shifting the trades cost curve. What we guarantee is the work: conversion tracking shipped properly, dedicated landing pages per intent, monthly negative-keyword review, weekly bid optimization, and reporting tied to revenue per lead.
Quality Score is Google’s estimate of how relevant your ad and landing page are to the keyword. It directly affects your cost per click and ad position. We optimize Quality Score on three vectors: expected click-through rate (better ad copy, headline pinning where intent demands it), ad relevance (tight ad-group themes, one core keyword set per ad group), and landing-page experience (dedicated pages per intent, fast mobile load, message-match with the ad). A 7+ Quality Score on high-volume keywords often saves Huntington clients 30 to 50 percent on cost per click compared to a 4 or 5.
Three layers. Leading indicators: impressions, clicks, click-through rate, Quality Score, and search impression share in the Huntington auction. Mid-funnel: conversion rate by ad group, conversion rate by landing page, and call quality scoring on every CallRail-recorded inbound. Revenue: leads delivered, cost per lead, ROAS, and revenue attributed to paid via offline conversion imports from your CRM. The dashboard updates daily and the written report ships monthly with a strategy call.
Daily campaign monitoring during the first 30 days (weekly after), bid and budget optimization, ongoing ad copy and creative testing, landing-page conversion-rate optimization, monthly negative-keyword review tuned to the Huntington geo (Ashland, Ironton, and small-town spillover get filtered when off-target), audience segmentation refinement, call quality scoring, monthly reporting tied to leads and revenue, and a strategy call with DJ Van Zanten.
Yes. PPC is the fastest channel for a new Huntington business because it does not depend on review history or earned visibility, which take years to build against entrenched Tri-State competitors. A new business with a real offer, a clean landing page, and proper conversion tracking can produce tracked leads within the first week. We typically pair an aggressive PPC launch with a measured SEO build over the next six months so the blended cost per lead drops as earned visibility compounds.
Your Huntington PPC strategy call is run by DJ Van Zanten, not handed to a junior account manager.
DJ Van Zanten joined Lithium as co-founder in 2018 and leads the strategic side of every client partnership. His approach is real-talk consulting: map out a simple, actionable plan, identify the revenue opportunities that matter most, and translate the technical work into business outcomes you can measure. Behind DJ on every Huntington PPC program, co-founder Kurt Schell directs the technical and content execution, drawing on more than twenty years of SEO, PPC, and conversion-rate work. The strategy call you book is the actual call you take, with the person who will be calling the shots on what to prioritize, what to ignore, and how to measure progress.
Get a free 30-minute Huntington PPC audit.
On the call we look at your current Huntington PPC campaigns against impression share, conversion tracking depth, search-terms waste, landing-page conversion rate, and the actual cost per lead your CRM is recording. You leave with a specific 30-day plan, whether or not you decide to work with us. There is no slide deck and no sales pitch.
- No-obligation 30-minute call with DJ Van Zanten, not a junior
- Written priority list of the top 5 to 10 changes that will move leads
- Google Partner with a 5.0 rating across 30+ Google reviews